Xiamen

Xiamen’s Municipal Statistics Bureau announced that Xiamen's permanent population reached 4.01 million at the end of last year, about 90,000 more than in 2016. The city’s permanent population is expected to reach 5 million by the end of 2020.
More than half of the permanent population resides on Xiamen Island.
The permanent population on Xiamen Island (Huli District and Siming District) occupied 50.9 percent of the total permanent population of Xiamen City in 2017, down by 0.7 percent year on year.
The birth rate in 2017 reached 16.6 per thousand, a year-on-ye... Read More

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Alipay vowed on Monday to punish users who publish pornographic material on its newly launched social platform following public complaints about explicit content. Experts criticized the company for using a sexual element to advertise the platform.
Alipay, the online third-party payment platform established by China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, on Thursday began testing a social platform named "Circle," including two communities on the platform: one for female college students called "campus diary&q... Read More

A company that sells home brewery machinery in Tongzhou District, Beijing requires its female staff members to kiss their boss each morning, claiming it enhances the corporate culture and unites its staff. [Photo / Youth.cn]
A company that sells home brewery machinery in Tongzhou District, Beijing requires its female staff members to kiss their boss each morning, claiming it enhances the corporate culture and unites its staff.
Over half the company's staff members are women. They are required to line up between 9:00 and 9:30 each morning to kiss their boss.
Despite reluctanc... Read More